Kaniel Demsky

Kaniel Demsky (14 June 1875-12 October 1942) was a Polish rabbi from Olkusz.

Biography
Kaniel Demsky was born on 14 June 1875 in Olkusz, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. Demsky became a rabbi in his hometown, and he was the local preacher for several decades during which Polish Jews were persecuted under the Russian Empire and then Nazi Germany. In 1939, he was forced into the Krakow Ghetto by the Wehrmacht after their conquest of Poland, and on 12 October 1942 he died in Belzec extermination camp after the ghetto was cleared out by the Germans.